Thread:SillyPotato/@comment-1164563-20190430000439/@comment-1164563-20190430100530

Anime existed ages upon ages before DMC5 or BtN. I am aware that the Vergil theory is not quite meshing well with current continuity: I am proposing a possibility for what writers of the anime might've thought while doing it. And it makes sense to me to say it is Vergil.

It explains why anyone would confuse the two (they are identical twins, after all), and given Vergil is Dante's brother, he'd have a guess at what he was like in a friendship, and even what the buried treasure was about. Hell, it even explains the comment "now you are really acting like the Anthony I knew", while at the same time not contradicting the teacher's contrary "you are not actually Anthony" statement.

I like the idea of a random kid looking like Dante a lot less for one simple reason: it's one hell of a coincidence. Both that the kid would look exactly like Dante (up to and including the white hair, which is really rare IRL) and even acting a lot like Dante (enough so Dante and "Anthony" could be confused for each other).

But, like I said, it's just a thought.